A groundbreaking study in China's Inner Mongolia reveals a surprising 'tipping point' in grasslands. As drought intensifies, ...

Crossing certain aridity thresholds in global drylands can lead to abrupt decays of ecosystem attributes such as plant productivity, potentially causing land degradation and desertification. It is ...

“This analysis finally dispels an uncertainty that has long surrounded global drying trends. For the first time, the aridity crisis has been documented with scientific clarity, revealing an ...

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A new study provides evidence that extreme aridity in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert began approximately 45 million years ago, thus significantly earlier than previously assumed. The ...

A new study indicates that the world will experience more frequent and more extreme drought and aridity than currently experienced in the coming century, exacerbated by both climate change and ...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 9 December – Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods and storms intensified in some parts of the world, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became ...

Pune: Latest Aridity Anomaly Index maps from India Meteorological Department (IMD) have highlighted severe arid conditions in parts of north and Northeast in recent weeks. The data indicate that ...